The complex interaction between atrial fibrillation and heart failure in elderly patients
Heart failure (HF) and atrial fibrillation (AF) often coexist.Subjects with permanent AF show the highest prevalence of HF.Patients with incident AF have HF in a great number of cases and, reciprocally, in patients with incident HF, an AF can be frequently found.The simultaneous presence of the two conditions is associated with mortality rates high